[VB.NET] Reading and Writing to the Registry

[1UP]

This is a piece from my Final fantasy 11 Configurator that I made back when I used to play the game.

Start off with the imports:

Imports Microsoft.Win32

We'll now make a registrykey variable

  Dim FF_key As RegistryKey

Now we will make sure the location want it stored in that variable

 FF_key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("\Software\Microsoft\", True)

Granted I no longer have the game installed, I'm sure you will still get the point.

Now to read in the Keys that are already saved by the game. In this part I called a few keys that I wanted information from, so in order to do that I first declare my variables:

  Dim key_windowed_mode As String
  Dim key_res_1 As String
  Dim key_res_2 As String
  Dim key_3D_res_1 As String
  Dim key_3D_res_2 As String
  Dim key_texture_compress As String
  Dim key_on_screen_map As String

Then:

  key_res_1 = FF_key.GetValue("0001")
  key_res_2 = FF_key.GetValue("0002")
  key_3D_res_1 = FF_key.GetValue("0003")
  key_3D_res_2 = FF_key.GetValue("0004")
  key_texture_compress = FF_key.GetValue("0018")
  key_on_screen_map = FF_key.GetValue("0019")

The ("numbers") is the key name which holds the information that I wanted.


Now when it comes to writing it's just as easy:

 FF_key.SetValue("0034", 1, RegistryValueKind.DWord

Valuekind.dword is just the datatype, you don't always needs to do this but for this to work for me in this case I had to.

Hope this helps

 

[Lindows]

This is a piece from my Final fantasy 11 Configurator that I made back when I used to play the game.

Start off with the imports:

Imports Microsoft.Win32

We'll now make a registrykey variable

  Dim FF_key As RegistryKey

Now we will make sure the location want it stored in that variable

 FF_key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("\Software\Microsoft\", True)

Basically what that is doing is it's going to look like the tree in the regeditor:

Granted I no longer have the game installed, I'm sure you will still get the point.

Now to read in the Keys that are already saved by the game. In this part I called a few keys that I wanted information from, so in order to do that I first declare my variables:

  Dim key_windowed_mode As String
  Dim key_res_1 As String
  Dim key_res_2 As String
  Dim key_3D_res_1 As String
  Dim key_3D_res_2 As String
  Dim key_texture_compress As String
  Dim key_on_screen_map As String

Then:

  key_res_1 = FF_key.GetValue("0001")
  key_res_2 = FF_key.GetValue("0002")
  key_3D_res_1 = FF_key.GetValue("0003")
  key_3D_res_2 = FF_key.GetValue("0004")
  key_texture_compress = FF_key.GetValue("0018")
  key_on_screen_map = FF_key.GetValue("0019")

The ("numbers") is the key name which holds the information that I wanted.


Now when it comes to writing it's just as easy:

 FF_key.SetValue("0034", 1, RegistryValueKind.DWord

Valuekind.dword is just the datatype, you don't always needs to do this but for this to work for me in this case I had to.

Hope this helps

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[1UP]

Image is broken......

Meant to remove that when I posted it. The original post was from years ago and those images are long gone. Good thing they aren't really required.

 

[Lindows]

Meant to remove that when I posted it. The original post was from years ago and those images are long gone. Good thing they aren't really required.

yeah i just wanted to make sure you knew

 

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